† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
D+60R+60
1 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupBloomington, ILIllinoisUnited States
German25.6%16.1%12.5%
Irish14.4%10.6%9.4%
English13.1%6.9%9.5%
American4.1%3.3%5.3%
Italian3.7%5.4%4.8%
Polish3.3%6.0%2.2%
Swedish1.9%1.5%—
Scottish1.7%—1.3%
African American†7.6%12.1%9.9%
African0.5%0.5%0.5%
Mexican4.8%14.4%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.5%1.7%1.8%
Cuban0.2%0.2%0.7%
Guatemalan0.2%0.3%0.5%
Asian Indian3.6%2.1%1.4%
Chinese0.5%1.0%1.3%
Filipino0.3%1.0%0.9%
Vietnamese0.2%0.2%0.6%
Korean0.2%0.4%0.4%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Bloomington, IL
Illinois
United States
Median age
34.3
39.1
39.1
Age 18–24
16.9%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
14.7%
16.9%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Bloomington, IL
Illinois
United States
Median household income
$79,905
$83,390
$84,427
Poverty rate
12.9%
11.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
47.2%
37.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Bloomington, IL
Illinois
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
9.7%
24.1%
22.3%
Spanish
3.7%
14.0%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.6%
2.6%
2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
2.0%
1.0%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Bloomington, IL
Illinois
United States
Catholic
5.6%
24.2%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
22.0%
11.7%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
55.8%
49.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
9.8%
5.3%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Bloomington, IL
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−6.5%
1896
−21.8%
1900
−17.1%
1904
−30.9%
1908
−18.5%
1912
+4.8%
1916
−11.7%
1920
−40.2%
1924
−32.9%
1928
−31.6%
1932
+11.4%
1936
+12.0%
1940
−9.6%
1944
−16.0%
1948
−17.5%
1952
−29.6%
1956
−35.2%
1960
−27.8%
1964
+1.1%
1968
−25.3%
1972
−35.3%
1976
−25.9%
1980
−33.5%
1984
−33.8%
1988
−24.1%
1992
−4.4%
1996
−7.0%
2000
−14.9%
2004
−15.9%
2008
+1.2%
2012
−11.0%
2016
−1.3%
2020
+3.9%
2024
+4.9%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
51.4%Harris44,495
46.6%Trump40,290
2.0%
D+4.9
D+0.9
D+6.3
86,522
D
50.3%Biden43,933
46.3%Trump40,502
3.4%
D+3.9
D+5.2
R+0.5
87,387
R
44.5%Clinton36,196
45.8%Trump37,237
9.7%
R+1.3
D+9.7
R+3.4
81,324
R
43.4%Obama31,883
54.4%Romney39,947
2.2%
R+11.0
R+12.2
R+14.8
73,469
D
49.8%Obama37,689
48.5%McCain36,767
1.7%
D+1.2
D+17.1
R+6.1
75,750
R
41.7%Kerry29,877
57.6%Bush41,276
0.7%
R+15.9
R+1.0
R+13.5
71,620
R
40.9%Gore24,936
55.8%Bush34,008
3.2%
R+14.9
R+7.9
R+15.4
60,898
R
42.5%Clinton22,708
49.5%Dole26,428
8.0%
R+7.0
R+2.5
R+15.5
53,435
R
38.9%Clinton23,090
43.4%Bush25,726
17.7%
R+4.4
D+19.6
R+10.0
59,285
R
37.7%Dukakis18,659
61.7%Bush30,572
0.6%
R+24.1
D+9.7
R+16.3
49,511
R
32.8%Mondale15,880
66.6%Reagan32,221
0.5%
R+33.8
R+0.3
R+15.6
48,349
R
27.6%Carter13,587
61.1%Reagan30,096
11.3%
R+33.5
R+7.6
R+23.8
49,232
R
36.2%Carter16,601
62.1%Ford28,493
1.7%
R+25.9
D+9.4
R+28.0
45,879
R
32.3%McGovern14,824
67.6%Nixon31,060
0.2%
R+35.3
R+10.1
R+12.2
45,955
R
34.0%Humphrey12,779
59.2%Nixon22,284
6.8%
R+25.3
R+26.4
R+24.6
37,630
D
50.6%Johnson19,550
49.4%Goldwater19,120
0.0%
D+1.1
D+28.9
R+21.5
38,670
R
36.0%Kennedy13,971
63.9%Nixon24,758
0.1%
R+27.8
D+7.4
R+28.0
38,761
R
32.4%Stevenson12,332
67.6%Eisenhower25,758
0.1%
R+35.2
R+5.6
R+19.8
38,111
R
35.2%Stevenson13,296
64.8%Eisenhower24,494
0.1%
R+29.6
R+12.1
R+18.8
37,826
R
40.9%Truman12,904
58.5%Dewey18,430
0.6%
R+17.5
R+1.6
R+22.0
31,517
R
41.7%Roosevelt14,011
57.7%Dewey19,366
0.6%
R+16.0
R+6.4
R+23.4
33,562
R
44.9%Roosevelt18,024
54.4%Willkie21,865
0.7%
R+9.6
R+21.5
R+19.5
40,166
D
55.0%Roosevelt21,508
43.0%Landon16,826
2.0%
D+12.0
D+0.6
R+12.3
39,132
D
54.5%Roosevelt19,535
43.1%Hoover15,450
2.5%
D+11.4
D+43.0
R+6.4
35,871
R
33.8%Smith10,742
65.4%Hoover20,780
0.8%
R+31.6
D+1.3
R+14.1
31,789
R
23.1%Davis6,826
55.9%Coolidge16,550
21.0%
R+32.9
D+7.3
R+7.7
29,582
R
25.1%Cox6,411
65.3%Harding16,680
9.6%
R+40.2
R+28.5
R+14.0
25,555
R
41.6%Wilson11,699
53.2%Hughes14,988
5.2%
R+11.7
R+16.5
R+14.8
28,153
D
35.0%Wilson5,356
30.2%Taft4,624
34.7%
D+4.8
D+23.3
R+14.8
15,294
R
37.3%Bryan5,982
55.9%Taft8,953
6.8%
R+18.5
D+12.4
R+9.0
16,023
R
27.7%Parker4,149
58.7%Roosevelt8,772
13.6%
R+30.9
R+13.8
R+11.2
14,955
R
39.3%Bryan6,613
56.4%McKinley9,487
4.3%
R+17.1
D+4.7
R+9.5
16,818
R
37.9%Bryan6,328
59.6%McKinley9,964
2.5%
R+21.8
R+15.3
R+15.7
16,712
R
43.9%Cleveland6,487
50.4%Harrison7,445
5.6%
R+6.5
—
R+8.1
14,764
Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
D
49.6%32,188
48.3%31,353
64,861
2020
D
48.0%41,549
47.4%41,007
86,511
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Bloomington, IL
Year
Total registered
2016
66,286
2018
61,483
2020
67,346
2022
66,192
2024
71,591
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−1,082 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −17,035 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Bloomington, IL in Bloomington, IL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−568
2012
+194
2013
+630
2014
−2,673
2015
−2,664
2016
−1,611
2017
−1,950
2018
−1,567
2019
−2,102
2021
−451
2022
−1,078
2023
−1,251
2024
−862
2025
−1,082
Home to Illinois State University and a major State Farm corporate campus, the Bloomington-Normal metro votes more competitively than its downstate neighbors, reflecting a white-collar, degree-dense workforce that tempers the region's broader rural lean.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 40.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 0.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.9 points.
A population of 171,556, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,905 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Columbia, MO and Lincoln, NE.
Akashic
Political twins — metros
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
Compare two places, side by side
Twelve curated comparisons line up election history, demographics, and the divergence story for two places at a glance. Browse all comparisons →
Cite this page
All citations released under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Akashic Intelligence.
Bloomington, IL, Illinois. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cbsa/14010/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
License: CC BY 4.0
Embed this page
A live widget for your site — no API key, attribution built in, CC BY 4.0. All widgets & sizes →
In 2024, Bloomington, IL, Illinois voted Democratic by 4.9 points (D+4.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 86,522 votes cast, 44,495 went Democratic and 40,290 went Republican.
When did Bloomington, IL, Illinois last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Bloomington, IL, Illinois voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Bloomington, IL, Illinois?
Bloomington, IL, Illinois has a population of 171,556 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bloomington, IL, Illinois?
Median household income in Bloomington, IL, Illinois is $79,905 — below the national median of $80,734. The Illinois state median is $83,390.
What is the political history of Bloomington, IL, Illinois?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bloomington, IL, Illinois from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 27 went Republican.
